"""Distill accepted data into weights (LoRA SFT), then DISCARD the raw data. This realizes "weighted, not stored": curated + critique-revised pairs are folded into the model's parameters via supervised fine-tuning, then the text items are deleted. Only the weights and a small replay buffer survive -- the model carries the knowledge, not a growing corpus on disk. """ import json import os from pathlib import Path def distill(base_or_adapter, pairs, out_dir, lr, lora_r, lora_alpha, discard_raw=True): from datasets import Dataset from peft import LoraConfig from transformers import AutoTokenizer from trl import SFTConfig, SFTTrainer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_or_adapter) def fmt(ex): msg = [{"role": "user", "content": ex["instruction"]}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ex["response"]}] return {"text": tok.apply_chat_template(msg, tokenize=False)} ds = Dataset.from_list(pairs).map(fmt) args = SFTConfig(output_dir=out_dir, per_device_train_batch_size=2, gradient_accumulation_steps=4, learning_rate=lr, num_train_epochs=1, bf16=True, gradient_checkpointing=True, logging_steps=10, save_strategy="no", report_to="none", dataset_text_field="text", max_length=1024) peft_cfg = LoraConfig(r=lora_r, lora_alpha=lora_alpha, task_type="CAUSAL_LM", target_modules=["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj"]) trainer = SFTTrainer(model=base_or_adapter, args=args, train_dataset=ds, peft_config=peft_cfg) trainer.train() # merge LoRA into the base -> out_dir is a full, loadable model for eval + next round merged = trainer.model.merge_and_unload() merged.save_pretrained(out_dir) tok.save_pretrained(out_dir) if discard_raw: # the knowledge now lives in out_dir's weights; raw pairs are dropped pairs.clear() return out_dir def keep_replay(pairs, frac, path): """Persist a tiny stratified replay slice (real, high-score) to fight forgetting.""" import random top = sorted(pairs, key=lambda x: -x.get("score", 0)) keep = top[:max(1, int(len(top) * frac))] Path(path).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) with open(path, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f: for k in keep: f.write(json.dumps(k) + "\n") return len(keep)